Ted
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A nickname for the male given names Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus, and Edmund
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ted is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 2.2K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 549 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
49,170 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A nickname for the male given names Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus, and Edmund.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ted counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #471 | 49,170 | 1 in 6.8K | 49K | Ted | 549 |
| CA Canada | #330 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 1 | Ted | 234 |
| GB United Kingdom | #615 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 229 | Ted | 217 |
| IT Italy | #944 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 1 | Ted | 46 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Ted | 18 |
| SE Sweden | #674 | 7,555 | 1 in 1.4K | 7.6K | Ted | 106 |
| AU Australia | #683 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 9 | Ted | 162 |
| NZ New Zealand | #354 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 22 | Ted | 91 |
| SG Singapore | #379 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Ted | 65 |
49,170 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ted is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Ted är en engelsk smekform till → Edvard och → Theodor. En känd svensk namnbärare är kompositören och sångaren Ted Gärdestad (1956–97). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 9 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Short form of ane Pet form: Teddy.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, männl. Vom., engHsche Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Akan, = du^se^, duAs^, kase6, mankyiri, teasee; cf tia, tiaff. tea, teatea, a. narrow, stnall; thin, slender, slight, lean: close, fight, strait; okwHii, poraa, atade; ne kon teatea, F. tenaba, tenatena, atena, tseaba, atsea. Mt.7,13.14. Cf. hihia, mQamda, fweafwga
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
English: short form of EDWARD , also used for THEODORE . Pet form: Teddy .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ted de Corsiab. 1903USAmerican actor (1903-1973)
- Ted Knightb. 1923USAmerican actor (1923-1986)
- Theodor Holm Nelsonb. 1937USnot in their usual nameAmerican information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist
- Ted Turnerb. 1938USAmerican media mogul (1938–2026)
- Ted Dansonb. 1947USAmerican actor (born 1947)
- Ted McGinleyb. 1958USAmerican actor (born 1958)
- Ted Elliottb. 1961USAmerican screenwriter (born 1961)
- Ted Deutchb. 1966USAmerican politician and attorney (born 1966)
- Ted Chiangb. 1967USAmerican science fiction writer
- Ted DiBiase Jr.b. 1982USAmerican professional wrestler and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49K | #917 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7.6K | #477 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 3.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 94 | #917 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 37 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2025 | 22 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2016 | 9 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 6 | #270 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Ted?
- In the etymology graph, Eduardo, Eddie and Ed are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Edward and Theodore.
- Is Ted a male or female name?
- Ted is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ted have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 49 thousand people named Ted, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ted.
- Where is Ted most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ted is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Ted mean, and where does it come from?
- A nickname for the male given names Edward, Theodore, Thaddeus, and Edmund. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Ted?
- In the United States, the national register counted 49,170 people named Ted in 2020, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Ted compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ted is the 471st most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tedThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ted” — the 471st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.